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Editorial – The Coal Debate

16 October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 16th 1943 The Coal Debate A good many straws which have hovered in the wind for the last few weeks were vigorously...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty Lists – October 16th, 1943

October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 16th 1943 Montagu Hospital - The Week's Casualty Lists  Thursday William Booker, 93, Firbeck Street, Denaby Main, hand injury; Joseph Cartwright, 56, Firth...

The Sculptor

June 1933
South Yorkshire Times, June 9th 1933 The Sculptor Mr. C. S. Jagger, the Kilnhurst born Sculptor, at work on the model for his latest commission ;...

Editorial – Home Again

30 October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 30th 1943 Home Again Many homes, not a few in South Yorkshire itself, have been blessed this week by the return of...

Editorial – The Monomaniac

14 October 1939
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 14 October 1939 The Monomaniac Hitler has got his answer. The worst he can do is more tolerable than the...

Editorial – Adolf Strafe England

28 October 1939
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 28 October 1939 Adolf Strafe England The war still hangs fire but the German Foreign Minister came in front of the...

Girl’s Success

November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 20th 1943 Girl’s Success Fifteen-year-old Anne Taylor, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Taylor are well known Kilnhurst people, is a member...

Editorial – November 13th, 1943 – To The Bitter End

13 November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 13th 1943 To The Bitter End Hitler’s speech, sandwiched between those of Marshal Stalin and Mr. Churchill, did not gain anything...

Soldier – Harvey, Percy – Transferred To Germany

November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 27th 1943 Transferred To Germany Since the collapse of Italy, L/Cpl. Percy Harvey, of Kilnhurst, has passed through two Italian prison camps...

Editorial – Ripening The Harvest

27 November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 27th 1943 Ripening The Harvest The Bomb blizzard which has struck Berlin during the last few days while only a further...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List – November 13th 1943

November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 13th 1943 Montagu Hospital The Week’s Casualty List Wednesday Reginald Gilbert, 115, Wath Road, Mexborough, foreign body in eye; Derek Earp (13), 95,...

Marconigrams – May 05th 1933

May 1933
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 05 May 1933  Marconigrams A fourteenth-century arrow-head has been unearthed in Conisborough garden. There is no one livning person who is...

Editorial – Looking for Trouble

20 November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 20th 1943 Looking For Trouble There is still a good deal that is not clear about the unrest in the Lebanon,...

Editorial – Common Cause

6 November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 6th 1943 Common Cause News from Moscow was scanty for the duration of the conference between Britain, the United States and...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List – November 27th 1943

November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 27th 1943 Montagu Hospital The Week’s Casualty List Wednesday George Hunter, 30, Lindale Gardens, Goldthorpe, foreign body in eye; Betty Nelson (17½)...

Soldier – Whitlam, Trevor – Prisoner Of Germans

February 1944
South Yorkshire Times, February 5th 1944 Prisoner Of Germans A card from their elder son, Dvr. Trevor Whitlam (22), of the R.A.S.C., ended a period of...

Soldier – Whitlam, Trevor – Back To ‘Civvy” Street

October 1946
South Yorkshire Times, October 12th 1946 Back To ‘Civvy" Street Driver Trevor Whitlam (24), elder son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Whitlam. 23, Meadow View Road,...

Editorial – Women at War

2 October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 2nd 1943 Women at War Mr. Bevin is credited as the initiator of the vast meeting of British women held in...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List – October 02nd 1943

October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 2nd 1943 Montagu Hospital The Week’s Casualty List The following casualties were treated at the Montagu Hospital during the week ending September 29th. Wednesday John...

Marconigrams – October 02nd 1943

October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 2nd 1943 Marconigrams Mr. W. J. Harrison, stationmaster at Ashton Park Parade, has been appointed stationmaster at Wath. St. John Ambulance Classes, which...

Editorial – The Coal Debate

16 October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 16th 1943 The Coal Debate A good many straws which have hovered in the wind for the last few weeks were...

Editorial – Europe’s Ordeal

9 October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 9th 1943 Europe’s Ordeal The sack of Naples by the retreating Germans is a horrid foretaste of what is in store...

Editorial – Greece in Travail

16 December 1944
South Yorkshire Times, 16 December 1944 Greece in Travail There is a significant obduracy about ‘the manner in which the Greek ‘“rebels” (as General Scobie's...

Marconigrams – July 29th, 1932

July 1932
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 29 July 1932 Marconigrams Work will commence next week on a new Labour Exchange to be erected in Mexborough. A second...

Soldiers – License Family – Three Serving

October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 16th 1943 Three Serving Two sons and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. License, of 109, Victoria Street, are serving. Before...